Threats from climate change to terrestrial vertebrate hotspots in Europe

Luigi MaioranoDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, ItalyPLoS ONE 8:e74989. 2013

Differences in the umbrella effects of African amphibians and mammals based on two estimators of the area of occupancy

..In view of these limitations, it is difficult to justify spending economic and political resources on building systems that are at best working hypotheses that cannot be evaluated on a practical level...

What spatial data do we need to develop global mammal conservation strategies?

..The strategy would facilitate funding agencies, conservation organizations and national institutions to rapidly identify a number of short-term and long-term global conservation priorities, and act complementarily to achieve them...

..However, small PAs are, in many cases, the only option available, implying that we need to devote much more attention to the non-protected matrix in which PAs must survive...

Threats from climate change to terrestrial vertebrate hotspots in Europe

Luigi MaioranoDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, ItalyPLoS ONE 8:e74989. 2013

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Differences in the umbrella effects of African amphibians and mammals based on two estimators of the area of occupancy

..Overall, amphibians and mammals in Africa acted as an umbrella for a high proportion of species in the other taxon. Focusing on estimated suitable areas instead of ranges improved the umbrella effect of both taxa...

Tradeoffs of different types of species occurrence data for use in systematic conservation planning

..Its role in conservation could be enhanced by integrating the Natura 2000 system into a more general strategy that considers natural processes and the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying these processes...

The key elements of a comprehensive global mammal conservation strategy

..An increased availability of satellite imagery combined with improved resolution and classification accuracy of the resulting maps will play a progressively greater role in conservation monitoring. ..

The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge

..Levels of genetic diversity in the expanding Alpine wolf population, and the permanence of genetic structuring, will depend on the future rates of gene flow among distinct wolf subpopulation fragments...

Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversity